As a members of Her Brand & Co community, we are celebrating Jess and Mari.  The video and the garden!  Aren’t we honored to hear their brave stories of discovery and the next chapter

What process do you use to imagine, ideate, and plan your business and personal life? 

I’ve been asking that question - plus a couple more interesting ones– in my interviews with Her Brand and Co. community members who’ve generously agreed to chat.

Everyone has their own special way and process to reflect, ideate, create, and strategize. 

I’m highlighting three types from these interviews:

Eliminate the option of going back: “Burn the ships.”

Miserable after 10 years of corporate HR, Stuffona Latta (recently spotlighted by Her Band & Co) quit and then decided to pursue a love of baking and desserts.  With the mindspace to ideate, weigh options and strategize, she executed a career pivot to becoming a professional baker and marketer.

This move? Put yourself in a position where you must.

Discovery!

In this approach, the ideas and discoveries are inside you, they need coaxing and inspiration.

Bursting with ideas and thoughts, Jayme closes her office door, blasts hip hop, and scrawls on her whiteboard. Using multiple markers and colors she fills it with her ideas, questions, and frustrations.  Spent, whiteboard now a colorful mess, she stands back, squints her eyes, and scans for what speaks to her.  She takes a picture, documents the session and the wisdom, and forges ahead.

Jan is a former actor and highly creative person. Jan reads voraciously on every topic under the sun (think quantum physics to color theory) and talks to as many different types of humans as she can.  Inspiration and data from these conversations and seemingly random learning inform her projects and fuel her creativity.

Ritualized and regimented planning

This move is to set aside time, energy and effort, to plan.

A technology consultant travels internationally for a week a year to take stock and plan her upcoming year. “My girlfriends offer to come, but the truth is I need to solo time to go deep.”

“I say something I want to do out loud and then I make a game plan to make it happen.”

So what am I learning?

Whether blasting hip hop, reading, or traveling solo, these women have discovered what works, and they trust their own process to deliver. 

For you…

Identify your go-to approach for freeing yourself to access your creativity, ideas, dreams and goals.  YOUR methodology is crucial to making the important things happen in your business and personal life.

Wanna chat?

I’d love to interview and collect your story.  My book, “A Million Reasons Why You Can’t” is on Amazon.  If you find self-discovery interesting, check it out.  Use this link to schedule an interview iI’d love to hear about your journey. Check out my website www.katrinabusselle.com.